Boris Stepanov

Tenor

Biography highlights

RECENT & UPCOMING

Recent performances include his debut at Grand Théâtre de Genève in concert performances of Carmina Burana and re-invitation there for the role of Raymond in a concert version of Tchaikovsky's Orleanskaya Deva under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski and Jurodivy in Boris Godunov in Gothenburg and Stockholm under the baton of Kent Nagano. Boris’ future engagements include Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Zinovy Borisovich in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Santiago de Chile, Malcolm in Macbeth for Theatre du Capitole Toulouse.

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

A principal of Mikhailovsky Theatre since 2015, Boris has performed Beppe in I Pagliacci and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Young Gipsy in Aleko, Tsar Berendey in The Snow Maiden, among others.

He took part in Dido and Aeneas at the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg and performed the tenor part in Desyatnikov’s As an Old Organ Grinder with the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg, Ivan in Johann Mattheson’s Boris Godunov in Hamburg with the Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg and at Novaya Opera Moscow, and Young Gipsy in Aleko in concert at the Smolny Cathedral in St Petersburg.

Boris’ recent and upcoming appearances include Italienischer Saenger in Der Rosenkavalier, Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Zinovy Borisovich in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Santiago de Chile, Malcolm in Macbeth for Theatre du Capitole Toulouse, as well as his debut at Grand Théâtre de Genève in concert performances of Carmina Burana and re-invitation there for the role of Raymond in a concert version of Tchaikovsky's Orleanskaya Deva under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski, and Jurodivy in Boris Godunov in Gothenburg and Stockholm under the baton of Kent Nagano.

In 2015 Boris Stepanov has joined the ensemble of Mikhailovsky Theatre and was heard as Tchaplitsky in The Queen of Spades, Almeric in Iolanta, Gaston in La traviata, Beppo in Pagliacci, Prince Léopold in La juive, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, and Tsar Berendey in concert performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden among others.

He took part in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, the “Opera World. Benjamin Britten” concert at the St Petersburg State Academic Capella, and performed the tenor part in Desyatnikov’s As an Old Organ Grinder with the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg, Ivan in Johann Mattheson’s Boris Godunov in Hamburg, with the Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg and at Novaya Opera Moscow, and Young Gipsy in Aleko in concert at the Smolny Cathedral in St Petersburg.

Born in Saint Petersburg, young Russian tenor graduated in conducting from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory and is currently studying in the Vocal Department with Prof. Irina Bogacheva.